A few weeks ago, we (myself & my two friends - Tomek & Wojtek, as a part of a community called CTO Morning Coffee) hosted an online X Spaces session on Domain-Driven Design (DDD). To be clear, this wasn't supposed to be an intro session; quite the contrary....
Many people who've never seen high-performing teams in action (I mean genuinely high-performing, not just the ones who self-claim they are ...), assume that all that you need to form such a team is: * assign them a mission (they could identify with) * grant them a sufficient...
I've used many personality assessment methods & tools in the past. Gallup SF, Transactional Analysis, OCEAN - that sort of stuff (& more). I'm not a professional behavioral psychologist (of course), but I thought nothing would surprise me regarding the qualification of personality types. Yet, I'...
It's one of the lessons I've learned the hard way: there's no other resource valuable more than your own time. Why so? * it's hard-capped * it's not transferable (my time isn't directly exchangeable with your time, at least...
I bet that nearly everyone in the software-crafting industry has heard about YAGNI [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it] ("You Ain't Gonna Need It") principle. But what about TAGRI? TAGRI (which is nearly as old as YAGNI) stands for "...
Recently I had an opportunity of observing few IT projects in progress. Sometimes such an external perspective is a true blessing as it helps to notice things that were somehow omitted by core project team. I’m not going to elaborate on all the details, I’ll just focus on...
These seem to be obvious, but if so - why do I every now and then meet people who seem capable but ignore them happily? 1. There’s a difference between software create by student who just did 3 days-long training and professional developer that has already created several applications...
There are million paths that can lead you to your target. Well, maybe not literally a million, but usually at least two :) And very rarely one of those is in clear way better than the others in all the aspects you take under consideration when making the evaluation. Sometimes, one...
You’ll never know when you run into something interesting (in professional perspective). Recently, I was reading the last book in Brandon Sanderson’s “Mistborn” cycle (damn, it’s good - highly recommended!) and even if it’s a fantasy setting, there were some very, VERY interesting statements, that I totally...
I’ve never been an A-Team fan. I may have seen just an episode or two, but it was enough to build an opinion that regardless of what episode was about, the A-Team has just one solution: board their steel-reinforced van, crush the entry gate to the...
"Sharing is good" - isn’t it what we’ve all been taught in nursery school? Sure it is and here I am - sharing my thoughts, ideas and what I’ve learned / found out recently. Frankly speaking, I’m not doing it for the first time (blogging, I mean...
